Sigmar Polke s ten-part series Wir Kleinbürger! Zeitgenossen und Zeitgenossinnen occupies a very important place in the artist s oeuvre owing to the unique variety of figures, traces, signs and quotations from popular imagery it contains: echoes of  Capitalist Realism from the 1960s blend with precursors to Polke s chemical and optical experiments with colour in the 1980s as well as the political themes that were to become increasingly prominent in his work from the mid-1990s onwards. As such it provides a panoramic view of art and everyday life in the Federal Republic of Germany in a period marked by hippie culture, the new women s movement and terrorism. Taking the Kleinbürger series as its starting point, this book provides for the first time insight into the whole of Polke s artistic output in the 1970s, a topic hitherto neglected by art historians. Films, photographs, drawings and paintings, supplemented by documentary material and source images, serve not only to illustrate the diversity of his work across a range of media but also to present a completely new  as a result of being long ignored  image of Polke in the era of sex, drugs and rock n roll.